On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:36:24 -0600, Eric wrote:
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I've finally been sufficiently pestered to fix this ;)
>>
>> Is anybody using any of these static libs from e2fsprogs?
>>
>> -%{_libdir}/libe2p.a
>> -%{_libdir}/libext2fs.a
>> -%{_libdir}/libcom_err.a
>> -%{_libdir}/libss.a
>>
>> I'm inclined to just remove them rather than making a -static
>> package, unless anyone needs them.
>
> Packages in fedora using those would have been breaking the guidelines
Sure but then e2fsprogs has been doing just that for too long as well ;)
> quite badly. The issue is whether any user of fedora uses them for
> development.
For that I'm inclined to drop the libs and people can ask if they need them.
We default to "no," right ...
-Eric
If you're still following this thread, there's a patch attached, which
is relevant to you.
It removes the virtual -static packages and fixes the scriptlets.
Non-fatal POSTUN scriptlet failure in rpm package e2fsprogs-libs
Cleanup : 2:vim-minimal-7.2.315-2.fc13.i686 555/658
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `1' used to build cache
warning: %postun(e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.9-9.fc13.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 1